GE Ethernet

Product Overview

The GE Intelligent Platforms Ethernet device driver works in conjunction with KEPServerEX to provide data exchange between OPC clients and GE PLCs. KEPServerEX automatically optimizes your data acquisition based on client demand. Data integrity is ensured with our extensive error handling. The GE Ethernet driver has been updated to support compatibility with major HMI applications making project conversion simple. This upgrade includes bit within register access and string support within register memory.

This driver is fully integrated with VersaPro, Logic Developer, and Proficy ME programming packages. A smart tag import wizard makes loading all of the tags in your PLC application a two-second operation, allowing simple access to all of your application data for any OPC or DDE enabled program.

This driver also supports PACSystems models RX3i and RX7i with Symbolic Variable support.

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Release Notes

6.3.273.0

9/27/2017

Fixed an issue where writes to strings in a discrete UDT failed.

5.17.495.0

2/24/2015

Fixed an issue where the driver posted the error message "Device returned error code 0xFDFF reading symbolic variable data" when certain devices respond with unexpected bytes. The driver was updated to handle these responses.

5.15.585.0

7/22/2014

Fixed an issue where data quality was bad when using only symbolic addressing for a PAC Systems device.

5.13.191.0

10/15/2013

Improved performance of the PACSystems model by requesting bytes instead of byte per bit when reading symbolic variables that are in discrete memory.

5.12.140.0

6/18/2013

Corrected an issue that occurred when reading symbolic variables with the PACSystems model, where symbolic array and array element tags might not be included in the same request

5.11.250.0

3/5/2013

Enhanced the driver to support the reading of Symbolic addresses (for PACSystems devices) via multiple blocks within a single read packet, which dramatically improves the driver's read performance in large projects. Changed the default value of the Maximum Bytes Per Request device property from 256 to 2048.

Enhanced the driver to support Bit-level access within Symbolic addresses within the PACSystems model selection of the driver. This change affects the following data types: BYTE, INT, UINT, WORD, DINT, DWORD, and array elements of those data types (in both discrete and non-discrete memory). Added new error messages for invalid bit index and invalid data type for bit access.

5.10.205

11/13/2012

Added support for %W addresses above 65,535 for the PACSystems model type.

Added support to Read/Write Symbolic Variables that are mapped to reference addresses for the PACSystems model type.

Resolved an issue where the driver was not locking a process thread correctly, which could cause the driver to stop issuing polls to devices.

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